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2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020

Cory Doctorow
2 min readJun 15, 2021

#20yrsago Laid-off tech-workers crowd San Francisco homeless shelters https://memex.craphound.com/2001/06/15/laid-off-sysadmins-and-other/

#15yrsago PirateBay hides anti-MPAA taunt in DNS https://web.archive.org/web/20060904114045/http://hackingthemainframe.com/smf/index.php?PHPSESSID=94828ac4e02399d0b8f7586f1bff09fc&action=dlattach;topic=6217.0;id=253

#15yrsago Why Apple is to blame for iTunes DRM https://web.archive.org/web/20060620004534/http://vitanuova.loyalty.org/NewsBruiser-2.6.1/nb.cgi/view/vitanuova/2006/06/15/1

#15yrsago Jim Baen, science fiction publisher, has had a serious stroke http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/archives/007658.html#007658

#10yrsago Rotters: YA horror novel about grave-robbing chills, thrills, delights https://memex.craphound.com/2011/06/15/rotters-ya-horror-novel-about-grave-robbing-chills-thrills-delights/

#10yrsago French proposal: any URL to be arbitrarily blacklisted without due process https://www.laquadrature.net/en/2011/06/15/the-entire-internet-under-governmental-censorship-in-france/

#10yrsago Apple patents mobile camera that other people can shut off…

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Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow

Written by Cory Doctorow

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